>>34182998>since he was also fighting with the intent to kill in order to surviveI think it was a lot more complicated than that because Maxie was clearly not sold on the idea of killing Archie while Archie was fully into it. Tho he could also have realized he had zero chances of winning.
In the RS chapters they don't really threat each other with hostility and once they start to work together they are fully in sync and seem to trust each other completely, and they always spoke in "we/us" and never "I/me". What an horrible way to go.